Commentary

THERE ARE MANY LEGITIMATE trade issues between the United States and Japan. But Federal Express Corp

Washington has fallen into the dangerous trap of debating international trade issues by focusing on

Dependence on oil continues to be the weak link in the American energy system. We use too much of i

TUCKED INTO A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE authorization bill now before a House- Senate conference committ

A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, that perpetual demand of the world's bankers, is a key objective of the driv

When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions. William Shakespeare wasn't thinking

A MODEST HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAM launched five years ago with little fanfare has sparked a staggering

A June 21 editorial on LTV Corp. should have said the company has offered to pay $1 billion in stock

A new horror show is playing in Congress. The villain, as depicted by a variety of reputable U.S. bu

The U.S. government is facing a critical juncture in trade policy, yet several years of work on majo

Unexpectedly good news about U.S. foreign trade in April sent Wall Street briefly into orbit last we

THE WELL-WORN PHRASE trade negotiations has become a fancy way of describing bilateral talks aimed a

The House Ways and Means Committee should resist the temptation to increase the gas guzzler tax when

REFORM IN TUNISIA: TRUE STORY UNTOLDThe opinion piece by Djamel Darradji and Eric Ehrmann (T

In the aftermath of the 1984-85 drought and subsequent famine that devastated the Horn of Africa, th

Has Paris shot itself in the foot as an international financial center? Melodrama aside, the

THE PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORP. should get tough with LTV Corp. as the company seeks to pay off a

On May 6 the management of Texas Air Corp. filed a $1.5 billion lawsuit against the two unions repre

If you knew Joe Faraci, you would fly to Washington to interview the deputy postmaster general, too.

THERE ARE FEW SURPRISES in the Justice Department's new draft guidelines for applying antitrust law

ODDS ARE RISING against Congress' approving the U.S.-Canadian trade pact before September. T

A PROVOCATIVE NEW REPORT from the Worldwatch Institute raises a claim straight out of the 1970s: In

Transportation planners face two very different and virtually intractable dilemmas. The first, urban

A funny thing happened on the way to the White House. Ideology died. The liberal-conservativ

A SPECTER IS HAUNTING WASHINGTON: the specter of Eurosclerosis. That specter, alas, is turni

IF SOMETHING'S UNDESIRABLE, prohibit it. After using that approach against the ocean disposal of sew

MCCARRAN REPEAL WILL HURT, NOT HELPFor a journal of commerce that publishes some reasonably

The heads of government of the seven largest industrial democracies are likely to feel and express t

Few would have expected that Snow White would offer a guide for this year's election campaign. But w

IN POLITICS, ONE MAN, ONE VOTE is a rule that makes sense. In corporate governance, however, it may

A robust economy in the United States with exports in the lead and good internal growth in Japan are

EVERYONE WANTS TO FIGHT DRUGS, but no one wants to pay the tab. The Coast Guard has been waiting for

Washington celebrated a historic milestone last week. By a wide margin, the Senate passed and sent t

For the past couple of months, talks between U.S. and Philippine representative s have been under wa

When are you transportation-logistics people going to jazz up your image? the dean asks Tom Ashton,

HAVING HEARD THE WAILS OF CONSUMERS, the nation's state insurance commissioners are proposing a nove

A LOVE FEAST IS IN STORE when the leaders of the seven major industrial nations convene their annual

REAL AIR BAG VICTORY BELONGS TO VICTIMThank you for your May 31 editorial that calls attenti

IT WAS ONLY A SYMBOLIC SHIPLOAD, but the first American-built Hondas to reach the Japanese market ar

Call it Ebbegate. It's a Swedish scandal, not one of those late 1960's movies that tickled the pruri